Gymnadciua.] oechidace-e. 479 



and single-ribbed. Lip spotted, nearly plane, in 3 very unequal lobes, the late- 

 ral broad, rounded, entire or slightly notched, spreading or deflexed, the middle 

 one small, rather longer than the rest, somewhat triangular ; spur subcylindrical 

 or conical, compressed, deflexed, bluntish, always shorter than the furrowed much- 

 twisted germen. Pollen-masses greenish. 



[f-|-|- " Glands of the pollen-masses united." — Bab. Man.] 



6. O. pyramidalis, L. Pyramidal Orchis. " Lip with 3 equal 

 entire lobes and 2 protuberances at the base above, lobes oblongo- 

 truncate, middle lobe sometimes emarginate, outer sepals spreading 

 acuminata, spur subulato-filiform longer than the germen, brac- 

 teas 3-nerved." — Br. Fl. p. 423. E. B. t. 110. Jac(i. Fl. Aust. 

 iii. 37, t. 266. Anacamptis, Rich. 



In dry or rather moist clayey or chalky meadows and pastures, in woods and on 

 the high downs ; by no means rare. Fl. June, July. 2^. 



E. Med. — Not common about Ryde. In Binstead stone-pits, and in the fields 

 by the foot-road from that village to Byde, sparingly. Common on grassy slopes 

 at Ventnor. Bembridge down. 



W. Med. — Plentiful in grass-fields at Egypt, and on the slipped land along the 

 shore W. of Cowes. Abundant on the down W. of Freshwater gate. Near Comp- 

 ton farm, and near Yarmouth. Abundant on Carisbiooke-castle hill. In the 

 fir-plantation by Calbourne New Barn. In the great fir- and beech-plantation 

 by Westover. 



II. Gymnadenia, R. Br. Gymnadenia. 



" Lip spurred. Anther-cells contiguous. Glands of the stalks 

 of the pollen-masses naked, approximated." — Br. Fl. 



1. G. conopsea, R. Br. Fragrant Gymnadenia. Br. Fl. p. 

 423. Orchis, L. : E. B. t. 10. 



lu dry, hilly, heathy or chalky pastures, sometimes in wet boggy situations ; 

 not very general. Fl. June — August. 11. 



E. Med. — Bank opposite Madeira villa, Ventnor, Miss Hadfields !! 



W. Med. — Very fine and plentiful on the slipped clay-banks in Colwell bay, 

 and on the upper end of Colwell heath, in very wet ground. On Freshwater 

 down, common, 1841. On chalky slopes at Apes down, 1846. 



Root of 2 palmate, whitish, fleshy tubers, and a few simple, abrupt, tapering 

 fibres. Stem erect, from about 12 to 18 or 20 inches high, leafy, rounded 

 below, angular, furrowed and mostly purplish above, smooth and glabrous, 

 with a central hollow or wholly filled with loose cellular tissue. Leaves rather 

 numerous, pale green, not spotted, closely sheathing, glabrous, the lower ones 

 more or less spreading but not prostrate or drooping at the ends as in 0. mascula, 

 &c., somewhat obtuse, the upper erect or erecto-patent, acute, all strongly folded 

 together or condupHcate, often slightly recurved or subfalcate, extremely variable 

 in breadth, mostly very narrow, linear and linear-lanceolate, at other times as 

 broad as in O. pyramidalis and lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, the uppennost of 

 all gradually approaching the floral bracts in size and shape. Flowers numerous, 

 much resembling those of O. pyramidalis in size and structure, but of a paler 

 more dilute colour, which is rather lilac than purple or crimson, rarely white, in 

 a terminal spike of an oblong or pyramidal figure, more seldom subcylindrical 



O. laxiflora, Lam. (O. ensifolia, VilL), abundant in the Channel Islands, is 

 reported, as I learn from my friend Mr. Borrer, to have been found in this island, 

 on the authority, I believe, of Mr. Dawson Turner. 



